The Speakers
We have highly esteemed speakers from various countries who will share their excellent research in ICE 10
Prof. Dr. Justin Dillon
Justin is professor of science and environmental education at the University of Exeter, UK. His research focuses on learning and engagement in and out of schools. After studying for a degree in chemistry, Justin trained as a teacher and taught in London schools before joining King’s College London in 1989, where he worked as a researcher and teacher educator until 2014. Justin was President of the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) from 2007-11 and is President of the UK National Association for Environmental Education. He edits the journal, Studies in Science Education, and is an editor of the International Journal of Science Education. In the summer of 2022, Justin will be moving to UCL, London.
Professor Marilyn Leask
Professor Marilyn Leask is leading Education Futures Collaboration charity (MAPPING TECHNOLOGIES EXPERTISE) and co-chair of the international MESHGuides research knowledge mobilisation network, an initiative of the charity.
The Education Futures Collaboration charity exists to mobilise research based knowledge and make it easily accessible by teachers, around the world.. The word ‘MESH’ represents the interconnectedness of the knowledge required for teaching. (MESH = Mapping Educational Specialist knowHow.) MESHGuides have readers in over 200 countries. OECD research shows that no country is managing to keep teachers up-to-date in subject and pedagogic knowledge: the charity uses digital tools allow new solutions to intractable problems.
MESH is an example of a teacher/researcher led, international, knowledge management system for teachers using digital tools to keep costs low:
MESHGuides are research summaries, updated periodically, written for teachers (and parents/carers), linked to the research giving rise to the advice.
MESHConnect describes the collaboration and international networking part of the MESH knowledge management and mobilisation strategy.
Prof. Dr. Munawar S. Mirza
'Prof. Dr Munawar Mirza, a distinguished educationist having 45 years of service in the field of higher education, is former Vice Chancellor of University of Education. She started her career as lecture at University of the Punjab, earned her Doctorate in Education from the University of Georgia USA and rose to become the Director Institute of Education and Research and Dean Faculty of Education, in which positions she worked for a long time. Due to her distinguished services she was the first University Professor ever elevated to BS-22, the highest level in a six tier structure of the university teachers. Moreover, she is the first and the only Professor Emeritus in Education at University of the Punjab. In her various capacities she provided exemplary leadership in education, academic administration and financial management of the concerned institutions, initiating and managing change in academic administration, strategic planning and its implementation for institutional development, human resource development, academic reforms and innovations, resource mobilization and linkages at the national/ international levels. The manifestation of her performance is evident in the form of strengthened and sustainable institutions, systems and programs at these institutions.
Dr. Mirza is a keen and diligent researcher who has a long list of large scale commissioned research studies to her credit, has published 55 research articles and is editor/chief editor of three journals in the field of education. She has participated and contributed in more than a hundred national/ international conferences/ workshops. She has supervised more than 200 hundred master level and twenty PhD theses.
She is a well-recognized figure in the field of higher education, teacher education, academic assessment and quality assurance. At the provincial/ national levels she developed the concept and designed the Punjab Examination Commission and National Education Assessment System. She is member of the Accreditation Committee of Government of Punjab for universities and DAIs. She is the founder Chairperson of National Accreditation Council of Teacher Education which she steered from the concept to development and implementation of the whole system- developing accreditation standards, indicators/benchmarks, procedures, training and accreditation of more than 150 institutions.
Her participation at the national/ international educational institutions and organizations is very wide. She served/ is serving on governing bodies of many high level institutions, think tanks and advisory committees in the field of Education. At the international level she is Member of ILO-UNESCO Committee on the Status of Teachers (CEART), ESD Selection Committee of ACCU, UNESCO's International Network of Teacher Education Institutions on ESD.
Her excellence and contribution in the field of higher education and research have brought her recognition at the national/international levels. Some of her national awards include Presidential Award 'Ezaz-e- Fazeelat' and Fatima Jinnah Medal. At the international level she was decorated with the most prestigious UNESCO award, the Comenius Medal. The University of Glasgow, ranking 74th in the world, conferred upon her the D.Lit. (Hon.) Degree in recognition of her services in the field of teacher education and women development. She is also honoured as National Distinguished Professor by the Higher Education Commission, Pakistan.
Prof. Dr. Sarah Younie
Dr Sarah Younie is Professor of Education Innovation and conducted international research on digital technologies for over 20 years. Having undertaken research projects for the EU, UK Government Agencies, Local Authorities, educational charities, and EdTech companies, she is an experienced Principal Investigator. Her research focuses on knowledge management, whereby expertise can be translated from experts to practice.
DeMontfort University is committed to address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in its research, teaching and enterprise activity as it is the only UK University to be designated a UN’s Global Hub for SDGs. DMU was designated a Global Hub for the support of SDG16 by the UN Academic Impact group. This commits DMU to provide worldwide leadership for the promotion of peace, justice and strong institutions. The University’s record of work for the public good, and belief that universities are uniquely placed to make a difference, now underpins our collaboration with the United Nations. The UN 17 SDGs represent a far-reaching manifesto for a fair, peaceful and sustainable planet by the year 2030, to which the university has signed up to.
DMU is a sector-leader in sustainability research, committed to embedding groundbreaking interdisciplinary research that advances knowledge on sustainability. DMU’s “Global Instinct” strategy includes a commitment to fostering a global network, thereby building global partnerships across all areas of teaching, research and knowledge.
Dr Larissa McLean Davies
Larissa McLean Davies is the Chief Investigator (CI) of the project. Larissa has a PhD in Literary Studies and is an Associate Professor in Language and Literacy, and Deputy Director - Learning and Teaching in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne.
As Deputy Director – Learning and Teaching, she has oversight over the Master of Teaching Early Childhood, Primary, Secondary and Secondary Internship, and is currently leading the re-development of the Master of Teaching for re-accreditation in 2016.
Larissa is a Senior Researcher in the International Teacher Education Effectiveness Hub, where she leads research at the interface of pre-service curriculum development and teacher education effectiveness research.
In addition to frequent conference presentations, Larissa is regularly asked to talk about teacher education and a clinical approach to learning and teaching, and has given invited presentations at the House of Lords as part of the UNESCO Educational Futures Forum, at Oxford and Plymouth Universities, and for the Victorian Institute of Teaching and the Victorian Department of Education and Training.
Larissa is co-editor, with Brenton Doecke and Philip Mead, of the first book to bring together secondary and tertiary teachers of literature in Australia: Teaching Australian Literature: from classroom conversations to national imaginings (Wakefield/AATE). Larissa’s current research in this area is on the role of ‘literary sociability’ in English teachers’ professional learning.
Dr Hordatt-Gentles
Dr. Hordatt Gentles is a Senior Lecturer with the School of Education, UWI. Mona. She holds a PhD in Curriculum, Teaching and Learning in Teacher Education from the Ontario Institute of Educational Studies, University of Toronto, a master’s degree in Educational Psychology, a Diploma in Education specializing in Geography and Social Studies from UWI, Mona, and a BA (Honours) in Psychology from York University, Toronto, Canada. Dr. Hordatt Gentles is a teacher education and teacher development specialist who has worked across the Caribbean region as an external examiner and consultant for the World Bank, UNESCO, and USAID. Her research has focused on the ideologies that inform the practice of teacher education with respect to pedagogical change, inclusion, critical pedagogy, ESD, preparation of teacher educators, and teacher professional development.
Dr. Hordatt Gentles is Chief Editor for the Caribbean Journal of Education and programme coordinator for the Masters in Teacher Education and Teacher Development offered by the School of Education at UWI. Mona. She is also the Chairperson of the Joint Board of Teacher Education (JBTE) and has worked as External Examiner for the JBTE in Jamaica, Belize, and the Cayman Islands. She currently serves as Immediate Past Chair of the International Council on Education for Teaching (ICET). Dr. Hordatt Gentles has also served on several national public and private sector Boards in Jamaica, including the University Council of Jamaica (UCJ), the Advisory Board for Undergraduate Studies, University of Technology, Jamaica, and the Lowe River Junior and Primary High School, Trelawny. Her most recent Board appointment is as a member of Grace Kennedy Foundation Board of Directors, Chair of the Education Sub-Committee.
Dr. Nasser Mansour
The director of STEM center at the Exeter University (UK). He is Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). I am a key member of the accreditation team in UK for Thinking Schools. I am developer and designer for the Physics and Chemistry curricula and STEM for Cambridge International Examinations, Cambridge University, UK.
I have a strong record of high quality publications from 2007 to 2020 (6 books, 47 papers [45 in English and 2 in Arabic] and 20 book chapters and 50 conferences). My papers have regularly been published in top tier refereed journals in science education such as Science Education, International Journal of Science Education, Journal of Science Teacher Education, Cultural Studies of Science Education, Research in Science Education, Computers and Education and European Educational Research.
I was the PI for the Horizon 2020 bid entitled ‘Science Everywhere and Science for All (SESA)’ (total budget € 2,989,476). The consortium consists of 16 partners from 13 countries: 13 partners in 10 EU countries and 3 non-EU partners. I was the lead applicant for a COMENIUS project (421,882€) entitled ‘Complex Argumentation Based Learning’ and for the science Education project, EU, FP7 (1 Million Euros).
My work is not only widely cited but has led to many invitations to give keynote addresses at important international conferences in many countries including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Russia, Egypt, and Germany.
My research involved analyzing STS Education, STEM Education, teacher professional development and STEM, cultural issues related to science education and science textbooks. My first book focused on “Models of understanding science teachers’ beliefs and practices: Challenges and potentials for science education”. My recent books “Science Education for Diversity: Theory and Practice (Springer, 2013: and another book “Science Education in the Arab Gulf States: Visions, Sociocultural Contexts and Challenges (Sense publishers, 2015), his latest book entitled “STEM in science education and S in STEM: from Pedagogy to learning”, (Brill-Sense Publishers, 2020).
Because of My research interest in the area of the Islamic perspective of science and science education, I cooperated with the Islamic State University (UIN) Jakarta, University of Malang in Indonesia and King Saud University in Saudi Arabia to develop their science courses considering the Islamic perspective and values.
I have successfully mentored many PhD students into becoming effective researchers. I support my PhD students to publish in prestigious and highly ranked journals.
I received The Best Paper Award of the European Educational Research Association (EERA) Postgraduate and Young Researchers Pre-Conference 2007. I received the University of Exeter ‘Merit Award’ and ‘Above & beyond Award’.
Currently, I am the member of the Distinguished Contributions to Research Award Committee for National association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), USA. I serve on the editorial board for international journals published in English or Arabic. I am the Editor-in-Chief for Social Science and Humanities Open Journal (Elsevier) and an associate Editor for Thinking Skills and Creativity.
I was the external examiner for the Master’s programme at the Faculty of Education, British University in Dubai (2015-2018). I was invited to visit the American University in Cairo (AUC) to join their Distinguished Visiting Professor program in the graduate School of Education from January-May 2017. He was the MSc programme director at Exeter University, UK from 2014-2017.
Dr Muhammad Sabieh Anwar
Dr Muhammad Sabieh Anwar is Professor of physics, Ahmad Dawood Chair and Dean at the LUMS Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering. He helped establish the physics department at LUMS and was among the principal founders of the School’s experimental facilities and curriculum. Ideas from his physics instructional laboratories have been replicated in ten Pakistani universities. He has played an important role in introducing innovative learning tools, mostly revolving around insightful homegrown physics experiments, in Pakistan’s universities. His lectures are interspersed with in-class live demonstrations and are widely viewed over the internet.
Sabieh’s research interests encompass spintronics, magnetism and optics. Sabieh has published around eighty research articles in international journals including Science, the Physical Review series, Optics Express, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. His book on tabletop quantum mechanics experiments with single photons has recently been published by the Institute of Physics, UK.
Sabieh is the General Secretary of the Khwarizmi Science Society which is focused on the popularization of science at the grassroots levels. The Lahore Science Mela curated by Sabieh has attracted more than fifty thousand visitors over a span of six days in three years. Prior to joining LUMS SSE in 2007, Sabieh was a post-doc in chemistry and materials science at University of California, Berkeley and a PhD student, as Rhodes Scholar, at the Oxford University. He is the recipient of the TWAS medal in physics for Pakistan in 2008 and the National Innovation Prize in 2015. He is member of the task force on the Culture of Science in the Muslim World, the National Committee on R&D constituted by the Higher Education Commission, and serves as Advisory Board Member of some Pakistani Universities.
Prof. Dr. Nasir Mahmood
Prof. Dr.Nasir Mahmood, Professor and Dean, Faculty of Education Allama Iqbal Open University, Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Teacher Education Islamabad
Prof. Dr. Nasir Mahmood has been serving as Professor and Dean in the Department of Science Education of Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad. Mr. Nasir Mahmood has a PhD degree, in the field of “Education Psychology” from Tokyo Gakugei University, Tokyo, Japan in 2001-04. He has completed Post doctorate in the field of Science Education from University of Leeds, UK. He is honored by the 2009 Executive Endeavour Award by Government of Australia at Assessment Research Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Dr. Nasir Mahmood has 20 years of experience working in education sector at different levels. He has completed 37 research projects/grants as Principal, Co-Principal and team member. These grants/projects were funded by ODA, UK, PMSP-Asian Development Project, DFID Punjab Middle Schooling Project, ADB Teacher Training Project, UNESCO, HEC, UNICEF, University of Punjab, British Council, Gender Equity Program USAID and Teacher Education Project-USAID, and Allama Iqbal Open University. He has 32 research papers published in national and international peer reviewed journal. He has presented papers in more than fifty seminars, conferences and workshops at national and international level. He has been invited as Key Note Speaker in several conferences within country and abroad. Eleven of his doctoral students have already been awarded PhD degree.
Prof. Dr. Nasir Mahmood is a member of Pakistan Association of Science Educators (PASE) Pakistan, Japan Society of Science Education. (JSSE) Japan and Jean Piaget Society (JPS) USA and American Educational Research Association (AERA) in the USA, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), International Society of Teacher Education (ISTE), and Urban Development and Environmental Research Center (UDERC). He is also a member of several Editorial Boards of educational journals and his scholarly work is published in the national and international journals.
Prof. Dr. Nasir Mahmood was given an award of Best Research Paper Award 2010, Higher Education Commission, Government of Pakistan, HEC Outstanding Research Series, Best Research Paper Award 2010, Higher Education Commission, Government of Pakistan, HEC Outstanding Research Series, 2015 Staff Exchange Fellowship, Open University China, Beijing form June 1-21, 2015, Ministry of Education, Government of China. He was also given a Asian Association of Open Universities (AAOU) Meritorious Services Award 2021, for top 10 contestants from AAOU member states in 2021.
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Memon
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Memon has been serving as an Honorary Chairperson, National Accreditation Council for Teacher Education (NACTE), Higher Education Commission (HEC), Islamabad since July 2019. He served as Chairman, Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education, Hyderabad Sindh for more than six (06) years, officiating Chairman, Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education, Mirpurkhas and officiating Chairman, Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education, Shaheed Benazirabad. He served as Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani Professor at the Aga Khan University Institute for Educational Development (AKU-IED), Karachi for more than a decade. He was the first national Director, AKU-IED, Karachi for more than eight (08) years.
Prof. Dr. Memon started his career as a teacher at the Sindh Madressah-tul-Islam, Karachi (Alma Mater of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the Founder of Pakistan) in 1970. After serving the national institute for more than 13 years, he joined as an Assistant Director, Planning and Monitoring Cell, School Education & Literacy Department, Government of Sindh, Karachi in 1980. In 1983, he joined as Lecturer (Education) at the Government College of Education, F.B. Area, Karachi. He proceeded for pursuing his higher studies aboard and earned his Ph.D in Education (Curriculum Studies) from the University of Surrey, England in 1989. He attended several intensive courses including the course on Professional Development and Project Management at the University of Sussex, England and the University of Philippines, Manila respectively.
Prof. Dr. Memon is a member of several high-powered committees/task forces on education in Pakistan, member of the National Curriculum Council, Islamabad and member of Board Governors of several educational institutions and member of the Senates of Universities, Board of Studies, and Selection Boards of Universities of public and private sector. He is also a member of several Editorial Boards of educational journals and his scholarly work is published in the national and international journals. Recognizing his academic, research and scholarly contribution to the educational development in the country, various educational institutions have honoured him with awards.
Prof. Dr. Memon was given an award of ‘Recognition of Outstanding Teaching and Academic Pursuit / Scholarship’ in 1995, title of ‘Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani Professor’ in 2004, award of 'Excellence in Education' in 2015, and title of ‘Professor Emeritus’ in 2021 by the Aga Khan University, Institute for Educational Development, Karachi. He was also given a ‘Role Model Teacher Award’ by the Free Journalists Foundation, Hyderabad and ‘Academia Choice Award ‘by the All Private Schools & Colleges Association, Karachi in 2021.
Prof. Dr. Riaz Ul Haq
Dr. Riaz ul Haq is a Pakistani American scientist, religious scholar, social thinker and environmentalist. He got his Master of Science in Biology from University of the Punjab Lahore, Pakistan with distinction. He was awarded first position in the University. He taught Biology at Military College of Kharian, Pakistan for 6 months. He left the college to seek alternate higher religious education and moved to Lahore, Pakistan. After completion of Quranic education, he was hired by University of the Punjab, Lahore at Center for Advanced Molecular Biology. There he was the first to be selected by USAID for higher education in Genetic Engineering and Molecular Biology, in USA. He was accepted in a graduate program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, which is the oldest engineering university in the world. He studied and did research work at General Electric Company, Schenectady, New York from January 1986 to March 1988. He worked with Professor Henry Ehrlich of Rensselaer who was a pioneer and the high-ranking authority in geomicrobiology, industrial microbiology and mineral leaching. He returned to Pakistan and joined University of the Punjab, mentoring graduate students at Department of Zoology. He taught, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Genetics and Limnology. He was awarded Ph.D. in Microbiology by joint committee from Worcester, Medical Center, Massachusetts and University of the Punjab, Lahore in 1994 and was selected as Assistant Professor of Genetics and Microbiology at University of the Punjab, Lahore. In July 1999 he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship by University of California, Irvine and for that he lived in Long Beach CA. After one year he moved to Baylor College of Medicine, Houston to work on a project investigating breast cancer. At Baylor College of Medicine, he made several very important discoveries investigating interaction of proteins involved in breast cancer. He was awarded the best researcher of the year 2002 by Endocrine Society of USA when he presented his research at annual meeting of the Society held in San Diego, California. He worked at University of Texas Health Science Center on projects like effect of nicotine on cell biology of human cells and on molecular biology of newly marketed anti diabetic drugs on human cells. He also worked and taught at University of Texas at San Antonio from 2007 to 2011. Currently he is a working at South Texas Blood and Tissue Center and Qualtex Laboratories. Qualtex laboratory is the largest lab in the world for blood and blood product testing. Research in Environmental Clean-up Strategies Dr. Haq was the pioneer in Microbial Environmental clean-up studies while at University of the Punjab. He managed to publish several related scientific research papers in peer reviewed journal in Europe and USA. He isolated and identified many microorganisms, including bacteria, yeast protozoa and algae, efficient in detoxification of toxic metals. Industrial wastes from tanneries and other industries are not properly treated before being released into environment and natural waters because of high cost of chemical detoxification operations particularly unaffordable for third world countries and for developing countries. Microbial treatment of industrial toxic wastes is cost-effective and natural. Tanneries use chromium VI for treatment of hides. It ends up in natural waters and is highly toxic and carcinogenic. Dr. Haq isolated microorganisms surviving in contaminated waters and studied their metal detoxification ability. Some of the microorganisms were found to be extremely resistant to heavy metal toxic ions and were also capable of detoxification of metal ions. They convert chromium IV to chromium III that is extremely less toxic as compared to CrVI. Dr. Haq proposed an efficient procedure for detoxification of heavy toxic metal ions involving sequential use of bacteria, yeast and algae. His model has been listed in World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, published in Europe. Scientific Publications Dr. Haq has followed objective oriented research. He has published about 40 research papers in various scientific journals. More than 10 of his papers are listed at ENTREZ PUBMED of United States’ National Institute of health (NIH). NIH is the Governmental organization dedicated for health-related strategies, research and funding. He has also published books for public and student awareness in contemporary science. His book “Everyday Science” has been ranked one of the best introductions to science for students who have not studied science as a major and for ordinary people. His book “Planets” was written after inspiration from NSA's Voyager I and Voyager 2 missions. These two missions were the most successful in exploring the solar system and collected a huge wealth of scientific information about the planets of the solar system. “Planets” is a very good introduction to these planets.
Dr Maryam Rab
About 25+ years of experience in private and public sector in Pakistan from setting up of technology company to playing key role in establishing first public sector women university in Pakistan. Held different portfolios during the tenure including international research and capacity building collaborations with international universities. My field of interest and expertise is policy formulation and strategy development, strategy execution, research, and project management. I have in-depth experience in setting up institutions and programs and evaluation and monitoring mechanism. Skilled in designing, conducting and analyzing qualitative research in the academia and community projects. My research interest covers, experiences of students in Pakistani and UK universities, women as role models, women leadership in higher education. I have led several initiatives with universities in UK, Pakistan, USA and several countries in Europe. I have worked as led a consortium of 17 Asian and European Universities for an EU funded project. Mentored trainee teachers in a US State department funded project.Established the first exclusive research unit in British Council and have supported teams in replicating the model globally. I have led ‘Pakistan Series’ research in the areas of disability, aging, creative and cultural industries, English, skills and youth, women in science and higher education and research. I have planned designed and led leadership training projects with the Pakistani origin Diaspora community in the UK. Led Culture Sector Working Group, with UNESCO and 12 other foreign missions in Pakistan, which is responsible to supporting, enhancing and strengthening the culture, arts and heritage sector in Pakistan. I am the first ever woman member on the Board of Governors of Cadet College Hassanabdal nominated by the Governor of Punjab (chair of the board).
I also represent British Council in the Advisory Group on Gender, Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) UK.